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THe  CHILD  AND  THeBI5H0P 

TOCeTH€R  WITH 

CeRTAIN  AenORABILIA 

OF 

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BOYLSTON  AND  CHURCH  5TS 

1694 


Copyright,  1893, 
By  J.  G.  CuppLES  &  Company. 

Ail  rights  reserved. 


TO   THE   MEMORY  OF 

MARY  ANN  (PHILLIPS)  BROOKS, 

THE   MOTHER   OF   A   GREAT   MAN. 


CONTENTS. 


PREFACE ix 

EXTRACT  FROM  LETTER  OF  .     .     . 

BISHOP  BROOKS xiii 

THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP     .     .  19 

MEMORABILIA 

A  Chapter  from  Memory    ....  29 

The  Sermon  on  President  Lincoln  37 

As  Rector  in  Philadelphia   ...  43 

Philadelphia  Divinity  School     .     .  47 

Clericus  Club 53 

As  Rector  in  Boston       59 

At  Harvard  College 63 

Travels 65 

Outside  Labors 67 

Boston  Reminiscences 71 

As  Bishop 83 

Estimate 89 

Historical  Parallel 97 

L'Envoi 103 


PREFACE. 


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this  charity  having  especially  interested 
Bishop  Brooks.  The  only  public  bequest 
made  by  him  in  his  will  was  for  this  institu- 
tion. 


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"  Hear  the  words  of  the  Gospel  written 
by  St.  Mark  in  the  Tenth  Chapter,  at  the 
thirteenth  verse :  — 

"  They  brought  young  children  to  Christ 
that  He  should  touch  them  ;  and  his  dis- 
ciples rebuked  those  that  brought  them  — 
but  when  Jesus  saw  it  he  was  much  dis- 
pleased, and  said  unto  them,  Suffer  the 
little  children  to  come  unto  me,  and  forbid 
them  not :  for  of  such  is  the  Kingdom  of 
God.  Verily,  I  say  unto  you,  whosoever 
shall  not  receive  the  Kingdom  of  God  as  a 
little  child,  he  shall  not  enter  therein.  And 
he  took  them  up  in  His  arms,  put  His  hands 
upon  them,  and  blessed  them." 

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HUS  saying  he  (Socrates) 
got  up  and  went  into 
another  room,  and  Crito 
followed  him :  but  us  he 
requested  to  stay  be- 
hind. We  remained, 
therefore,  talking  over  with  one  another  and 
inquiring  into  what  had  been  said  :  ever  and 
again  coming  back  to  the  misfortune  that 
had  befallen  us  :  for  we  looked  upon  our- 
selves as  doomed  to  go  through  the  rest  of 
life  like  orphans  bereft  of  a  father." 

Plato's  Phaedo,  116. 


EXTRACT   FROM   A    LETTER. 

Indeed  I  had  a  delightful  visit.  I  still 
seem  to  hold  'Beautiful  Blessing'  in  my 
happy  arms.  ...  I  like  to  think  of  the 
new  church  getting  more  and  more  familiar 
every  Sunday.  It  must  never  lose  associa- 
tion with  *  B.  B.'  and  me,  who  gave  it  its 
first  consecration.  But  how  quickly  it  will 
lose  its  newness  and  get  filled  with  memo- 
ries. 

Ever  affectionately  yours, 

P.  B. 
Boston,  May  23,  1890. 


The  Child  and  the 
Bishop. 


THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

Girt  with  those  fast  folded  arms, 
Safe,  yet  with  tenderness  pressed, 
Calm  is  the  innocent  child, 
Peaceful  the  trusting  soul, 
Quiet  the  nesting  face, 
As  strength  and  innocence  meet, 
Spanning  the  perfect  arch, 
Twixt  Man  in  completest  power 
And  Infancy's  opening  life  ! 

Little  one  looking  away, 
Pulling  the  curtain  aside, 
Out  of  the  windows  of  time, 
Out  from  the  Wakening  Soul, 
What  is  Thy  vision  of  life  ? 
Image  of  houses  and  men, 
Playthings  of  creaturely  joy, 

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THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

Flowers,  and  blossoms,  and  birds, 
Life  in  its  manifold  forms,  — 
These  are  the  objects  thine  eyes 
View  from  the  window's  wide  pane. 

Tired  Thou  turnedst  again, 

To  the  arms  which  are  holding  Thee  fast, 

To  the  smile  which  enchains  in  its  peace 

The  fluttering  spirit  within ; 

Calm,  Thou  beholdest  once  more 

The  eyes  of  the  prophet  of  God 

Casting  their  light  into  Thine  ! 

And  what  in  the  face  of  the  child, 
Preacher  of  faith,  seest  Thou  ? 
Helper  and  Bishop  of  souls, 
Friend  and  Bringer  of  Hope, 
Torch-bearer  here  in  the  dark 
And  cavernous  chambers  of  doubt, 
What  dost  Thou  see  in  the  soul, 
What  in  the  face  of  mankind, — 
Looking  far  out  upon  time, 
20 

THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

Up  through  the  windows  of  life, 

What  dost  Thou  see  in  us  all  ? 

We  have  grown  weary,  our  walk 

Trembling,  and  road-sore  our  feet ; 

Nothing  of  life  can  we  solve. 

As  Thou,  our  leader  and  friend, 

Dost  the  divineness  of  God 

See  in  the  children  of  men. 

This  dost  Thou  teach  us,  we  know 

This  much  Thy  soul  has  made  clear : 

That  the  life  is  the  light  of  mankind 

(As  the  angels  in  Heaven  behold 

The  face  of  the  Father  in  light). 

Never  to  falter  in  faith, 

Never  to  sink  into  self, 

Never  to  barter  the  gold 

Of  the  Spirit  for  passable  coin, 

Not  to  play  false  to  the  soul. 

This  is  Thy  word  to  the  world, 

This  is  Thy  message  to  men  ! 

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THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

And  in  thine  eyes  have  we  seen 
The  glow  of  the  vision  divine  ; 
Under  the  smile  of  Thy  soul, 
Brother  and  Helper,  have  we 
Caught  from  the  light  of  Thy  face 
A  life  that  the  world  cannot  know  ; 
Manhood,  and  duty,  and  faith, 
Mastery  over  the  flesh. 
Triumph  through  patience  and  truth, 
Light  from  the  spirit  of  God, 
Strength  from  the  cross  of  our  Lord, 
This  have  we  gathered  from  Thee  ! 

Yes !  from  Thy  grasp  upon  God, 

The  light  of  the  mount  on  Thy  face 

Shining  resplendent  in  life, 

We,  on  the  sands  of  the  plain, 

Glimpses  of  glory  have  seen  ; 

Something  of  light  and  of  fire. 

Something  of  faith  and  of  calm 

From  Thy  presence  among  us  have  snatch'd. 

Something  have  saved  from  the  halt 

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THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

In  the  Caravan's  March  o'er  the  plain, 

Where  like  the  prophet  of  Old 

Waiting  in  silence,  alone, 

Thou  on  the  crest  of  the  mount 

Broughtest  God's  message  to  men. 

Out  of  the  windows  of  life. 

t.    Out  of  the  caverns  of  doubt, 

Forth  on  the  welcoming  world, 

Close  to  the  life  of  mankind. 

Thou,  like  a  Master  of  Souls, 

Shewest  the  way  for  our  feet ! 

Yes  !  and  the  Father's  lost  face, 

Seen  in  the  sons  of  mankind, 

Ever  Thy  spirit  hath  shown ! 

Deep  in  the  marshland  of  sin, 

Faint  in  the  darkness  of  night. 

Straying  like  sheep  that  are  lost, 

Still  in  the  heart  of  mankind, 

The  image  of  God  in  the  soul, 

'Twas  thine  to  explore  and  reveal, 

Brother  and  preacher,  and  friend. 

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THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 

Thou  for  the  sheep  of  Thy  flock 

Shepherd  of  Shepherds,  and  friend 

Of  those  who  in  doubt  and  in  fear 

Their  faith  in  the  tempest  have  lost, 

When  darkness  has  swept  o'er  the  soul 

And  the  lights  one  by  one  have  gone  out, 

The  windows  of  Heaven  have  seen, 

Hast  pointed  with  finger  of  Hope 

To  the  penciled  light  in  the  sky, 

To  the  glow  that  cometh  at  eve. 

The  sureness  and  truth  of  God, 

To  those  who  will  trust  and  obey ! 

The  golden  clouds  of  the  west, 

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Seem  not  more  truly  the  dust 

Of  the  feet  where  our  God  is  seen, 

Than  the  Scaffolding  Thou  hast  built, 

Whereby  in  these  toiling  hours, 

,     The  soul  can  ascend  to  its  God, 

And  finish  the  temple's  wall. 

That  building  not  fashioned  with  hands, 

The  Spirit's  Eternal  abode ! 

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THE  CHILD  AND  THE  BISHOP. 


Dead  Thou  art  not,  O  Man  — 
Dead  Thou  canst  never  be  ! 
Not  'mid  the  graves  of  earth 
Thy  living  voice  shall  we  seek, 
Thy  loving  soul  shall  we  find  ! 
Thou  art  to  us  as  a  star 
Fixed  in  the  quiet  sky, 
Seen  in  the  silent  hours. 
Giving  a  light  for  all  time, 
Ruling  the  blackness  of  night, 
Shining  forever  the  same  ! 
There  art  Thou  poised,  and  the  days 
That  move  with  invincible  force. 
Rapid,  resistless  and  sure. 
Never  can  hide  from  our  eyes 
The  light  and  the  joy  of  Thy  soul, 
Helper  and  Leader  of  men, 
Bringer  of  peace  and  of  light, 
Witness  to  God  and  mankind ! 


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Memorabilia. 


MEMORABILIA. 


A   CHAPTER   FROM    MEMORY. 

OME  time  during  the  summer 
of  1858,  the  Rev.  Phillips 
Brooks  came  to  Philadelphia 
to  be  the  rector  of  the 
Church  of  the  Advent  at 
Fifth  and  Buttonwood  Streets. 

His  friend  and  fellow  seminarian,  the  Rev. 
Henry  A.  Wise  from  Virginia,  was  then  rec- 
tor of  the  Church  of  the  Saviour,  West  Phil- 
adelphia, and  was  electrifying  great  congre- 
gations who  flocked  to  hear  his  swan-like 
discourses  as  with  hectic  face  and  trembling 
voice  he  went  from  church  to  church 
preaching  by  invitation  on  successive  after- 
noons and  evenings. 

Phillips  Brooks  and  Henry  A.  Wise  came 
to  the  same  field  from  the  Virginia  Semi- 
nary, though  Wise  was  first  on  the  ground 

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MEMORABILIA. 

; 

and    had    earned    his    following,  when   the 
shadow  of  death  was  seen  in  his  face  and  the 
storm   of    the  coming  war  of  the   rebellion 
was  beginning  to  break.     And  so  the  way 
was  left  open  for  the  young  Bostonian  who 
was  at  the  little  Church  of  the  Advent  at 
Fifth  and  Buttonwood  Streets, 

It  was  at  first  a  question  whether  this  so- 
called    transcendental    mind,    would  fit  the 
average   Philadelphian.      But  it  is  the  sign 
of    genius    to   fit     the    situation    whatever 
that  situation  may  be,  and  in  three  months' 
time,  this  young  man  whom  his  evangelical 
friends  eyed  askance  and  his   High   Church 
friends     could    not    begin    to    fathom,    was 
started  at  his  bicycle  gait,  spinning  his  way 
straight  up  the  heights  to  Olympus,  while  all 
the    religious    world    wondered.       This    tall 
young  man  came  one  Sunday  afternoon  to 
preach  for  his  friend,  the  rector  of  St.  Paul's. 
It  was  the  rector's  custom  in  those  days  to 
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MEMORABILIA. 

invite  the  new  clergymen  who  came  to  the 
city  into  his  pulpit,  and  to  welcome  them 
with   a   few   words    of    brotherly   greeting. 
Great  was  the  surprise  of  this  visitor  to  find 
himself   classed    in   a  category   which   was 
utterly  unknown  and  unfamiliar  to  him  ;  a 
surprise  which  was  shared  by  the  large  au- 
dience when  the  sermon  was  over,  since  they 
failed  to  recognize  the  sign  language   and 
test   words    of    the   evangelical   vocabulary. 
The  sermon  was  from  the  words,  "  Master, 
which    is    the    great  commandment   of  the 
law  ? "     And  when  it  was  over  something 
strange  had  happened  to  the  inmates  of  a 
number  of  pews.    A  land  which  was  dim  and 
far  off  came  very  near ;  a  shadowy  glimpse 
of    a  future  age  which  had  been  born    of 
boyish  dreams  stood  out  as  clear  as  a  land- 
scape, seen  through  a  nicely  adjusted  field- 
glass,  and  it  seemed  as  if  the  day  for  which 

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MEMORABILIA. 


the  young  mind  of  that  period  was  waiting 
had  come. 

After  the  service  the  young  preacher 
came  home  to  the  father's  house  to  supper 
and  met  the  family. 

But  the  preacher  did  not  say  very  much 
to  the  boys.  Something  seemed  to  be 
the  matter  with  his  collar  and  the  boys  were 
rather  shy  of  this  strange  and  mysterious 
visitor,  and  so  the  morning  and  the  evening 
of  this  friendship  were  the  first  day,  and  the 
party  broke  up  after  supper,  when  the  host 
returned  the  favor,  and  went  with  his  guest 
to  preach  at  his  little  church  on  Fifth  Street. 
And  thus  this  great  ministry  and  this  lasting 
friendship  began.  After  these  days,  when 
the  young  preacher  was  a  power,  throned 
like  a  king  in  the  pulpit  which  had  been 
built  for  his  old  friend  and  pastor,  Alexander 
H.  Vinton,  and  when  the  boys  whose  eyes, 
like  those  of  Balaam,  were  opened,  were  now 


MEMORABILIA. 

in  college  looking  forward  to  their  own  com- 
ing ministry,   how  many  and    how   helpful 
were  the  hours  stolen  from  routine  duties, 
when,  sitting  by  the  door  of  the   Church  on 
Rittenhouse    Square,    they   listened   to   the 
voice  and  drank  in  the  full,  deep  inspiration 
of  that  nobly  anointed  nature.     Many  a  Sun- 
day afternoon,  when  the  wide  doors  of  that 
Church  were  thrown  back,  and  the  crowds 
flocked  out  into  the  open  air,  it  seemed  to 
those  listeners  coming  out  into  the   street 
again,  as  if  the  very  heavens  were  on  fire, 
not  because  the  sun  was  setting  across  the 
Schuylkill,  but    because  the    preacher  had 
projected  a  light  into  the  open  sky  of  the 
heavens ;  the  light  of  the   mystic,  the  light 
of  the  prophet ;  that  light  which  never  was 
on  sea  or  land.     Wordsworth    says  in  his 
matchless  Ode  — 

"  Shades  of  the  prison-house  begin  to  close 

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MEMORABILIA. 

Upon  the  growing  boy ; 

But  he  beholds  the  light,  and  whence  it  flows, 

He  sees  it  in  his  joy. 

At  length  the  man  perceives  it  die  away, 
And  fade  into  the  light  of  common  day. 

In  those  war  days  in  Philadelphia  great 
Union  meetings  were  held  in  different 
churches  and  men  forgot  their  religious 
differences  in  the  fact  that  they  were  loyal 
to  the  government,  or  were  the  much  hated 
"copperheads",  a  term  of  reproach  taken 
from  the  reptile  world,  from  the  insidious 
habit  of  this  serpent  which  lay  low  and 
bit  the  heel  of  those  who  passed  by,  a 
trait  as  old  in  history  as  the  questionable 
blessing  of  the  dying  patriarch  upon  the 
tribe  of  Dan,  when  he  said  : 

"  Dan  shall  be  a  serpent  by  the  way  :  an 
adder   in   the    path,  that   biteth   the   horse- 

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MEMORABILIA. 


heels  so  that  his  rider  shall  fall  backward." 
(Gen.  xlvii,  17.) 

At  many  of  those  famous  war  meetings 
the  young  Bostonian  was  a  most  welcome 
speaker,  and  whether  he  offered  prayer 
or  spoke  a  word  of  cheer  and  counsel,  his 
tall  lithe  form  was  ever  a  benediction. 


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MEMORABILIA. 

THE    SERMON    ON   PRESIDENT 
LINCOLN. 

How  wonderfully   prophetic  are   the   fol- 
lowing   passages    taken    from   his    funeral 
eulogy  on    Abraham    Lincoln   as   the   dead . 
body  of  the  martyred  President  lay  in  Inde- 
pendence Hall. 

It  was  a  marvellous  address   for  one   so 
young  to  make  as  far  back  as  1865.     When 
one  reads  it  now  nearly  thirty  years  later,  and 
sees    this  outline  eulogy  realized  and  filled 
to  the  letter  in  the  after  career  of  Phillips 
Brooks,  the  words  of  the  noble  of  Ethiopia 
come  into  the  mind  as  after  reading  Isaiah's 
glowing  page  he  said  to  Philip  the  Deacon 
by  his  side,  "  of  whom  speaketh  the  prophet 
thus,  of   himself  or  of  some    other  man } " 
(Acts  viii,  34.) 

"  The  more  we  see  of  events  the  less  we 
come  to  believe  in  any  fate  or  destiny  ex- 
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MEMORABILIA. 


cept  the  destiny  of  character.  It  will  be  our 
duty  then  to  see  what  there  was  in  the  char- 
acter of  our  great  President  that  created  the 
history  of  his  life,  and  at  last  produced  the 
catastrophe  of  his  cruel  death. 

"  From  his  boyhood  up  he  lived  in  direct 
and  vigorous  contact  with  men  and  things, 
and  both  his  moral  convictions  and  his  in- 
tellectual opinions  gathered  from  that  con- 
tact a  supreme  degree  of  that  character 
by  which  men  knew  him,  that  character 
which  is  the  most  distinctive  possession  of 
the  best  American  nature,  that  almost  in- 
describable quality  which  we  call  in  general 
clearness  or  truth,  and  which  appears  in  the 
physical  structure  as  health,  in  the  moral 
constitution  as  honesty,  in  the  mental  struct- 
ure as  sagacity,  and  in  the  region  of  active 
life  as  practicalness. 

"A  great  many  people  have  discussed 
very  crudely  whether  Abraham  Lincoln  was 
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MEMORABILIA. 

an  intellectual  man  or  not  :  as  if  intellect 
were  a  thing  always  of  the  same  sort,  which 
you  could  precipitate  from  the  other  con- 
stituents of  a  man's  nature  and  weigh  by 
itself,  and  compare  by  pounds  and  ounces 
in  this  man  with  another.  The  fact  is  that 
in  all  the  simplest  characters  the  line  be- 
tween the  mental  and  moral'  natures  is 
always  vague  and  indistinct. 

"  They  run  together  and  in  their  best  com- 
binations you  are  unable  to  discriminate,  in 
the  wisdom  which  is  their  result,  how  much 
is  moral  and  how  much  is  intellectual.  You 
are  unable  to  tell  whether  in  the  wise  acts 
and  words  which  issue  from  such  a  life  there 
is  more  of  the  righteousness  which  comes  of 
a  clear  conscience  or  of  the  sagacity  which 
comes  of  a  clear  brain. 

"  It  is  the  great  boon  of  such  characters 
as  Mr.  Lincoln's  that  they  reunite  what  God 
has     jomed     together    and    man    has    put 

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MEMORABILIA. 

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asunder.  In  him  was  vindicated  the  great- 
ness of  real  goodness  and  the  goodness  of 
real  greatness.     The  twain  were  one  flesh. 

"This  union  of  the  mental  and  moral  into 
a  life  of  admirable  simplicity  is  what  we  most 
admire  in  children ;  but  in  them  it  is  unset- 
tled and  unpractical.  But  when  it  is  pre- 
served into  manhood,  deepened  into  reli- 
ability and  maturity,  it  is  that  glorified  child- 
likeness,  that  high  and  reverend  simplicity, 
which  shames  and  bafHes  the  most  accom- 
plished astuteness  and  is  chosen  by  God  to 
fill  his  purposes  when  he  needs  a  ruler  for 
his  people,  of  faithful  and  true  heart.  Such 
as  he  had  who  was  our  President. 

"  Here  then  we  have  some  conception  of 
the  man.  Out  of  this  character  came  the 
life  which  we  admire  and  the  death  which 
we  lament  to-day.  He  was  called  in  that 
character  to  that  life  and  death.  It  was 
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MEMORABILIA. 


just  the  nature     .     .     which  a  new  nation 
such  as  ours  ought  to  produce." 

These  extracts  taken  from  the  discourse 
preached  at  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity- 
while  the  body  of  the  President  was  lying  in 
the  city,  show  us  the  unconscious  prophecy 
and  confession  of  Phillips  Brooks'  own  rich 
and  harmonious  well-poised  character,  as  after 
the  nearly  thirty  years  which  have  passed 
since  this  funeral  oration  was  delivered, 
that  character  has  produced  an  impression 
upon  the  Christian  world  unparalleled  by  any 
living  man  of  this  century. 


MEMORABILIA. 


AS  RECTOR  IN  PHILADELPHIA. 


He  preached  the  Baccalaureate  Sermon  for 
the  graduating  class  of  1865  at  the  University- 
Chapel  on  Ninth  Street,  Philadelpia,  the 
first  time  that  this  chapel  was  used  for 
such  a  purpose.  Those  who  remembered 
the  famous  "  exhibitions  "  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  with  the  jargon  of  comic 
programmes  and  rival  and  opposing  claqueurs 
will  not  forget  this  occasion  when,  the  Glee 
Club  acting  as  choir,  the  young  preacher, 
then  in  the  rising  glory  of  his  greatness  as 
the  rector  of  Holy  Trinity  church,  preached 
a  sermon  from  the  words,  "  The  light  of  the 
body  is  the  eye  :  if  therefore  thine  eye  be 
single  thy  whole  body  shall  be  full  of 
light,  but  if  thine  eye  be  evil  thy  whole 
body  shall  be  full  of  darkness.  If  therefore 
the  light  that  is  in  thee  be  darkness,  how 


43 


MEMORABILIA. 

great   is  that  darkness !  "     (Matthew  vi,  22, 

23.) 

The  young  minister  lived  in  those  days  at 
Locust  and  Sixteenth  Streets ;  and  at  Spruce 
Street,    No.    1339;  and    at     1,115    Walnut 
Street.      His  rooms  were  always  most  at- 
tractive :  there  was  never  the  smell  of  the 
shop  about  them,   but  on  the  contrary  al- 
ways the  delicious  repose  of  the  idler,  the 
latest  reviews    and  magazines,    the  newest 
books,  the  most  fascinating  pictures  and  bits 
of   art,  while   the   fragrance  of  tobacco  lin- 
gered over  the  curtains,  manuscript  and  bric- 
a-brac,  and  one  never  was  in  a  hurry  to  leave. 

The  same  delightful  friendship  which  he 
formed   for  a   few  college   men,  and    most 
carefully    and     persistently     nurtured    and 
cherished,  continued  when   these  collegians 
became  seminarians  at  the  Philadelphia   Di- 
vinity School   at   Thirty-ninth   and    Walnut 
Streets,  West  Philadelphia. 
44 

MEMORABILIA. 

His  brother  Frederick  Brooks  was  at  the 
Divinity  School  in  those  days,  a  thoughtful 
earnest  quiet  man,  and  three  or  four  little 
groups  or  knots  of  men  rallied  around  the 
\  personality  of  the  younger  Brooks,  and  that 
of  a  very  remarkable  young  man  of  Scotch 
birth  and  ancestry  who  was  easily  the  leader 
of  all  who  came  into  touch  with  him,  John 
Irving  Forbes. 

One  of  these  seminarians  on  a  certain  oc- 
casion read  an  essay  at  the  Divinity  School 
which  attracted  the  favoring  judgment  of 
this  Agamemnon  among  the  students,  and 
into  his  room  one  night  at  11.30  o'clock 
walked  the  Rev.  Phillips  Brooks,  demanding 
without  further  parley  or  comment,  but  in 
an  imperious  and  commanding  way  which 
was  always  his  own  distinctly  effective  way, 
that  the  essay  in  question  should  be  forth- 
with immediately  read. 

The  student  in  question,  after  vainly  de- 

45 

MEMORABILIA. 


murring  and  apologizing  and  explaining  the 
matter,  saw  his  big  visitor  settle  himself 
down  with  a  pipe  to  listen,  his  big  eyes 
ogling  the  shy  student  out  of  a  week's  re- 
pose of  mind,  as  he  remarked  :  "  Come, 
come  now,  it's  late,  go  on,  let  me  hear  it,  and 
remember  I  want  to  hear  it  not  because 
Forbes  believes  in  you  fellows,  but  because 
you  fellows  believe  so  tremendously  in 
Forbes.  I  always  like  men  who  believe  ter- 
ribly in  other  men." 


46 


MEMORABILIA. 

PHILADELPHIA  DIVINITY  SCHOOL. 

The  origin  of   the  Philadelphia  Divinity 
School  is  like  the  sources  of  the  Nile,  and 
the    beginning    of   all  history,  shrouded    in 
myth  and  fable.     There  were  men  who  grad- 
uated from  this  school  before  it  was  a  school, 
and  before  the  classes  came  into  regular  and 
apostolical  succession,  but  they  were  like  the 
men  who  lived  before  the  flood  or  like  the 
kings  who  reigned  before  the  Pharaohs,  or 
like  the  dragons  of  the  period  who  lived  be- 
fore the  gate  was  hung   on   its   hinges   in 
Eden.     Their  record  on  the  page  of  history 
is  precarious  and  uncertain.     These  aborigi- 
nal gentlemen  of  the  early  miocene  period 
of  the  Divinity  School  used  to  meet  in  the 
basement  of  St.  Luke's  Church,  where  they 
were  instructed  by  the  early  Professors  of 
that    rising    institution.       Dr.    Howe,    then 

47 

MEMORABILIA. 


rector  of  the  Church  ;  Dr.  May,  who  was 
imported  from  Virginia  to  be  the  main 
spring  of  this  new  enterprise ;  Dr.  Stone, 
who  was  translated  from  Massachusetts  to  be 
the  lecturer  on  evangelical  theology;  Dr. 
Vaughn,  who  was  the  George  Herbert  type 
of  character,  himself  the  lecturer  and 
the  model  of  what  was  termed  "pastoral 
care,"  and  Dr.  Van  Pelt  whose  title  was  the 
familiar  one  which  in  Hebrew  means 
"teacher,"  together  with  Dr.  Hare  whose 
work  at  the  Episcopal  Academy  was  then 
over,  were  the  early  instructors  of  this 
dawning  school  of  the  prophets.  The  hands 
of  that  great  organizer,  Bishop  Alonzo  Pot- 
ter, were  seen  under  this  institution,  but  it 
had  to  begin  somewhere  without  money  and 
without  price,  without  the  interest  of  the 
rich  or  the  favor  of  those  high  in  church 
affairs.  So  it  began  in  the  basement  of  St. 
Luke's  Church,  in  Philadelphia,  and  the  path 
48 


MEMORABILIA. 


which  led  to  it  was  like  the  path  the  poet 
Watt  describes  in  his  psalms  in  metre : 

"  But  wisdom  shows  a  narrow  path, 
With  here  and  there  a  traveller." 

But  there  came  a  day  when  to  airy  noth- 
ingness there  was  given  a  local  habitation 
,  and  a  name,  and  in  the  early  years  of  the 
sixties,  or  just  when  the  civil  war  was  dawn- 
ing, the  Alibone  mansion  at  Thirty-ninth  and 
Walnut  Streets,  in  West  Philadelphia,  with 
its  large  house  and  stable,  received  this 
migratory  school  of  the  prophets  journeying 
westward  according  to  Bishop  Berkeley's 
prophetic  advice,  and  there  the  school  be- 
came a  great  power,  and  rested  for  a  score 
of  years  until  the  present  edifice  with  its 
spacious  halls  and  chapel  was  erected. 

John  Irving  Forbes  was  the  great  charac- 
ter of  those  days  to  all  who  knew  him,  and 
in  many  ways  the  most  original  and  striking 


MEMORABILIA. 

personality   that    the    Philadelphia   Divinity 
School    ever  produced.      He   died   in  1871, 
three  years  after  his  graduation. 

Forbes  fairly  made  the  men  who  clustered 
round  him  over  again.     He  turned  them  in- 
side out  as  the  skilled  farmer  turns  over  to 
the  sunlight,  the  damp  wet  hay.    He  dragged 
men  out  of  their  inner  selves  :  taught  them 
to    think,  and    thrilled    them  with    his    own 
masterful  leadership,  and  was  a  perfect  Soc- 
rates to  an  admiring  group  who   lived   upon 
his  bold  and  fearless  ventures  into  the  abyss 
of  the  unknown.     Himself   a  mystic,  an  old 
Catholic,   and  a  thorough-going    Mauricean, 
the  men  who  were  about  him  were  as  clay  in 
the  hands  of  the  potter.     In  those  days  he 
was  in  constant    communication  with  Mau- 
rice,   and     used     to     read    from     time    to 
time   the  wonderful  letters  sent  to  him  by 
the  great  preacher  and  philosopher  of  Lin- 
coln Inn's  Fields.     He  was  always  in  debate 
50 

MEMORABILIA. 

with   the   professors,  always  respectful  and 
reverential  in  manner,  and  always  conserva- 
tive in  expression  and  profoundly  radical  in 
thought. 

It  was  his  interesting  leadership  at  the 
Philadelphia   Divinity  School  which    so   at- 
tracted the  mind  of  the  young  preacher  of 
Philadelphia  to  this  group  of   willing  eager 
disciples. 

At  the  time   of  the    ordination  of  these 
men,  together  with  a  venerable  pastor  of  one  ' 
of  the  city  churches,  the   graduating   class 
from  the  Philadelphia  Divinity  School  (which 
was  ordained  in  the  year  1 868)  found  them- 
selves invited  to  a  breakfast  the  day  before 
their  ordination  at  the  celebrated  Augustin's 
Restaurant    in    Philadelphia,    where     these 
embryo    young    clergymen  were   made  the 
guests   of  their   friend,    the    Rector   of  the 
Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity. 

During  these  days,  and  for  the  few  years 

SI 

» 

MEMORABILIA. 


following,  one  by  one  this  group  melted 
away  into  the  natural  condition  of  married 
life.  As  one  of  these  young  men  ap- 
peared for  the  sixth  time  at  the  chancel  rail 
of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity  in  the 
capacity  of  groomsman,  to  meet  the  brides- 
maid who  was  his  companion  at  the  chancel 
gates,  the  Rector,  who  had  been  officiating 
at  the  wedding,  remarked  in  sotto  voce, 
"  How  long,  O  Cataline,  wilt  thou  abuse  our 
patience  ? "  to  which  the  young  man  replied 
as  he  met  his  companion  and  walked  down 
the  aisle  with  her,  "  Positively  my  last  ap- 
pearance in  this  capacity." 


MEMORABILIA. 

CLERICUS  CLUB. 

It  was  such  circumstances  as  these  with 
an  admiring  group  of  young  students  which 
began  this  remarkable  friendship.    Later  on,  ^ 
a  few  of  these  students  at  the  Philadelphia 
Divinity  School  found  themselves  once  more 
the  circling  companions  of  their  illustrious 
friend,  now,  however,  the  scene  of  their  ac- 
tivities being  removed  to  Boston.     It  was  in 
the  year  1870  that  the  famous  Clericus  Club 
in  Boston  began,  a  club  which  had  had  its 
first  innings,  so  to  speak,  in  the  city  of  Phil- 
adelphia in  the  year  1867.     The   following 
description  of  the  beginning  of  this  club  is 
taken   from    the    "  Remembrances    of    Rev. 
Phillips    Brooks"    by    Rev.    Dr.    C.    A.    L. 
Richards,  page  34. 

"  What  a  host  he  was  to  us,  the  members 
of  this  club  from  which  he  is  taken.    It  clus- 

53 

MEMORABILIA. 

tered  about  him  in  the  beginning,  and  he  re- 
mained its  loved  and  honored  centre  to  the 
end.     To  most  of  us,  however  loyal  to  one 
another,  its  meetings  have  meant  primarily 
an  evening  with  Brooks.     The  first  meeting, 
in  the  fall  of  1870,  was  held  at  his  rooms  in 
the  Hotel  Kempton,    not  more  than  half-a- 
dozen  of  us  being  present.     We  were  rather 
dull,  perhaps,  at  that  first  meeting.     Brooks 
often  has  reminded  me  how  I   lingered  be- 
hind at  the  close  and  said,  '  I  wonder  if  this 
club   will    ever   get    together   again.'      As 
usual,  he  was  hopeful,  and  his  hope  prevailed. 
"  We  had  no  laws,  and  no  officers  but  the 
secretary,  who  became  the  sole  fountain  of 
law.      When   we    needed    authority  we   ap- 
pealed to  him.     It  was  understood  that  this 
club  was  limited  to  twenty.     The  agreement 
was   useful    as   a   point    of  departure.     We 
never  exceeded  that  number  until  we  wanted 
more,  when,  a  few  founders  protesting,  more 

54 

MEMORABILIA. 


came  in  and  the  club  became  twenty-five. 
That  bound  is  final ;  no  one  would  dream  of 
passing  it ;  so  our  present  number  of  mem- 
bers is  thirty-three.  Our  course  has  been 
absolutely  consistent.  We  have  had  no  law, 
and  have  disregarded  any  precedents  that 
were  likely  to  acquire  the  force  of  law. 
Brooks  always  acted  as  president,  though  no 
such  office  was  known  to  exist  among  us. 
Time  has  a  little  impaired  our  original  struc- 
ture. We  have  a  president  and  secretary 
now,  and  where  the  law-making  power  re- 
sides only  constitutional  adepts  can  deter- 
mine. 

"  After  his  election  to  the  Bishopric  it 
seemed  best  to  him  to  disarm  prejudice  by 
resigning  his  presidency  in  this  club  and  ac- 
cepting membership  in  other  like  societies. 
He  was  glad  to  be  with  them,  but  we  cannot 
fail  to  remember,  also,  how  his  heart  lost  no 
interest  in  this  club,  how  often  he  met  with 


5S 


MEMORABILIA. 

US,  how  cordial  he  was  with  us.     For  many 
years  our  meetings  were  in  his  study.     He 
would  have  it  so,  and  it  was  pleasant  to  be 
his  debtor  for  hospitality  so  gladly  offered. 
He  said,  the  last  time  I  saw  him,  that  if  he 
had  known  how  often  he  could  arrange  to  be 
at   home   on    club   nights,   he   should   have 
urged  us  to   retain   our  old  meeting  place. 
Our  '  loving  cup '  given  him  on  his  election 
to  the  Bishopric  was  a  source  of  pride  and 
pleasure  to  him,  of  greater  pride  and  pleas- 
ure to  us  who  gave  it,  in  slight  token  of  our 
love  and  gratitude.     He  took  it  as  he  took 
any  such  tribute,  not  at  all  as  his  due,  but  as 
if  his  friends  were  so  good  and  kind  to  him," 
The  old  Philadelphia  Clericus  Club  always 
seemed  to  this  transplanted  group  in  Boston 
like   the  recollections   of   some   earlier  pre- 
existent   state,    or   like  a  trial   trip   of   the 
steamer  before  the  machinery  was  finally  ad- 
justed for  the  great  voyage  of  life.     Happy 

S6 

MEMORABILIA. 


indeed  are  they  who  can  look  back  upon  this 
doubly  cemented  friendship,  bound  and  riv- 
eted with  the  precious  recollections  of  the 
life  in  Boston  and  the  earlier  days  of  prepa- 
ration in  the  city  of  Philadelphia. 


I'       "        ■"      M' 


MEMORABILIA. 


AS  RECTOR  IN  BOSTON. 

In  the  fall  of  1869,  just  six  weeks  after  he 
had  furnished  his  study  in  the  residence  of 
his  very  dear  friend,  the  Rev.  Charles  D. 
Cooper,  in  Philadelphia,  the  final  summons 
came  which  compelled  him  to  see  that  it  was 
his  duty  to  go  to  Boston.  There  he  was 
found  later  on  by  the  willing  emigrants  of 
Philadelphia  who  came  to  settle  around  him 
in  the  Hotel  Kempton  on  Boylston  Street, 
where  the  Boston  Clericus  Club  was  estab- 
lished, and  later  in  Marlboro  Street,  and 
finally  in  the  spacious  rectory  of  Trinity 
Church  on  Clarendon  Street. 

This  new  house  was  to  him  a  great  delight, 
and  great  was  his  joy  in  furnishing  it  and  in 
ordering  it  according  to  his  cosmopolitan 
ideas  of  living.  Certain  rooms  were  known 
as  Bishops*  rooms,  and  five-dollar  rooms  and 


MEMORABILIA. 

one-dollar  rooms,  and  the  old  guests  of  Phil- 
adelphia days  learned  the  lesson  of  the  "  Gos- 
pel Feast  "  and  often,  in  mock  humility  of 
spirit, -began,  with  shame,  to  take  the  lowest 
rooms,  or  in  other  words  the  choicest  cham- 
bers. 

One  of  these  friends  wrote  him,  after  his 
election  to  the  Bishopric,  to  the  effect  that 
he  would  not  feel  at  home  any  more  in  the 
old  rectory,  fearing  that  he  might  meet  the 
house  of  Bishops,  like  angels,  ascending  and 
descending  upon  the  well  known  stairs,  as 
these  Bishops  were  often  known  as  the 
"angels"  of  their  different  dioceses;  to 
which  the  reply  was,  "  Indeed,  the  diocesan 
angels  did  never  take  the  place  of  those  who 
have  gone  up  and  down  Jacob's  ladder  all 
their  life." 

A  certain  clerical  friend,  stopping  for   a 

day  or  two  at  the  house  at  the  beginning  of 

a  six  weeks'  vacation,  was  tempted,  day  by 

60 

.  * 1 

MEMORABILIA. 

■   day,  to   remain   for   nearly   a   fortnight,  in 
which    time    he    met   a   number  of  distin- 
guished English  visitors  who  found  the  hos- 
pitality of   this  rectory  as   inviting  as  the 
aborigines  had  done. 

Here    were    met,    at   different    intervals. 
Canon   Farrar  on  his  visit  to  America,  Rev. 
Mr.  Haweis,  the  well  known  clerical  musi- 
cian, Bishop  Anthony  Thorold,  formerly  of 
Rochester,  the  present  Lord  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester, and  it  was  here  that  Dean  Stanley, 
on  his   visit  to   America,  found  himself  so 
welcomed  and  at  home. 

The  Dean's  visit  to  New  England  filled 
Dr.  Brooks  with  great  delight,  and  as  the 
Dean  himself  had  taken  no  greater  pleasure 
than  in  showing  American  visitors  the  won- 
ders and  beauties   of    Westminster  Abbey, 

*•  so  this  courtesy  was  most  gladly  and  cheer- 
fully returned  by  his  illustrious  host  in  tak- 

6i 

; 

MEMORABILIA. 


ing  him  to  Cambridge,  Salem,  Plymouth  and 
the  region  of  the  Berkshire  Hills. 

The  bust  which  stands  to-day  in  the  al- 
cove in  Trinity  Church  is  a  perpetual  survi- 
val of  that  glad  visit  of  Arthur  Penrhyn 
Stanley,  bringing  with  him  in  his  day  of  sor- 
row and  cruel  loss  in  the  death  of  his  beloved 
wife,  the  welcome  and  the  blessing  of  the 
famous  Abbey  of  London  to  the  famous 
Trinity  Church  of  Boston.  Canon  Farrar, 
Mr.  Haweis  and  the  Bishop  of  Winchester 
have  all  expressed,  since  the  death  of  Bishop 
Brooks,  their  deep  and  tender  gratitude  for 
the  many  courtesies  and  favors  shown  them 
while  visiting  in  America. 


MEMORABILIA. 


AT  HARVARD  COLLEGE. 


The  interest  and  devotion  of  Bishop 
Brooks  for  Harvard  College  was  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  and  interesting  features  of 
his  life.  Harvard  never  for  one  moment  lost 
its  interest  in  her  illustrious  son,  and  those 
who  were  guests  at  his  house  when  he  was 
doing  service  as  Chaplain  at  Harvard,  will 
well  remember  the  early  breakfast,  perhaps 
eaten  alone  that  the  guests  might  not  be  dis- 
turbed, and  the  punctual  horse  and  coupe'  at 
the  door  at  an  early  hour  to  take  him  every 
day  for  six  weeks  to  Appleton  Chapel,  that 
he  might  there  open  the  service  of  the  day 
and  turn  what  might  have  been  regarded  by 
some  as  the  unmeaning  function  of  prayers 
into  the  beauty  of  a  gracious  and  loving  ser- 
vice. And  who  that  has  heard  him  preach 
in   Appleton  Chapel  before  that   throng  of 

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MEMORABILIA. 


expectant  students,  can  ever  forget  the  mar- 
vellous way  in  which  he  planted  himself,  and 
the  truths  for  which  his  life  has  always  stood, 
deep  into  the  moral  nature  of  untold  num- 
bers of  America's  choicest  youth  ?  Is  it 
any  wonder  that  the  last  act  in  the  pageant 
of  his  funeral  was  the .  passing  of  the  pro- 
cession through  the  uncovered  ranks  of 
Harvard's  sons  in  the  great  open  campus  at 
Cambridge  just  before  the  body  reached  the 
gates  at  Mount  Auburn  ? 


64 


MEMORABILIA. 


TRAVELS. 


Phillips  Brooks  was  particularly  fond  of 
travelling  and  of  mingling  with  life  in  all  its 
varied  forms.  His  visits  abroad  were  many 
and  interesting.  The  trips  to  all  sorts  of 
out  of  the  way  places,  the  visits  to  distin- 
guished men,  his  sojourn  with  Tennyson  at 
the  Isle  of  Wight,  his  meeting  with  Glad- 
stone and  Browning  in  London,  the  inter- 
views with  missionaries  and  wise  men  in 
India  were  all  recounted  to  his  friends  in  the 
most  delightsome  manner,  with  the  artless- 
ness  of  a  child  and  the  simplicity  of  a 
maiden  recounting  her  delight  at  the  first 
ball. 

When  he  returned  to  Boston,  his  friends 
of  the  clergy  and  laity  gave  him  a  dinner  at 
the  Hotel  Brunswick  to  welcome  him  back, 
and  those  who  heard  him  speak  on  this  oc- 

6s 


MEMORABILIA. 


casion  will  well  remember  the  conscious 
struggle  that  went  on  in  his  nature  between 
his  desire  to  make  emphatic  his  appreciation 
of  the  compliment  shown  him  on  that  occa- 
sion, and  his  equally  strong  desire  to  bring 
before  the  minds  of  the  churchmen  of  the 
Western  World  the  great  lessons  of  modera- 
tion and  simplicity  and  open-heartedness 
which  it  has  been  the  mission  of  the  East 
ever  to  impress  upon  the  more  active  and 
mechanical  life  of  the  Western  World. 
"  Ah !  Converse,"  he  was  heard  to  say  as 
the  meeting  broke  up,  "  how  good,  how  very 
good  it  was  in  you  and  all  these  other  breth- 
ren thus  to  welcome  back  such  a  wilful 
wanderer." 


MEMORABILIA. 


OUTSIDE  LABORS. 


Dr.  Brooks  was  one  of  the  early  orig- 
inators and  promoters  of  the  American 
Church  Congress  system  and  made  it  a  spe- 
cial point  to  be  always  present  at  the  meet- 
ings of  its  sessions.  He  followed  its  course 
with  the  deepest  interest  and  was  always 
one  of  its  most  helpful  advisers  and  friends. 
The  triennial  General  Convention  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  was  less  attractive  to  him 
as  a  matter  of  course,  but  it  is  an  interesting 
phenomenon  to  watch  the  change  in  his  at- 
titude toward  this  law-making  body.  From 
being  at  first  an  outside  critic,  he  grew  to  be 
a  recognized  debater  in  the  lower  house,  and 
was  always  most  courageous  and  chivalric  in 
his  admiration  for  and  defence  of  men  of  con- 
viction whose  guiding  beliefs  led  them  to  take 
67 


MEMORABILIA. 


the  floor  in  defence  of  their  cherished  arti- 
cles of  faith. 

No  words  can  express  his  oft  repeated  ad- 
miration for  the  skill  and  ability  displayed 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  Dix,  the  honored 
presiding  officer  of  the  House  of  Clerical 
and  Lay  Deputies,  and  it  was  this  admiration 
for  Dr.  Dix  which  led  Dr.  Brooks  to  accept 
the  invitation  from  the  Rector  of  Trinity 
Church,  New  York,  that  he  should  hold  a 
mission  there  in  Lent  for  a  certain  week  in 
each  year.  Those  who  were  present  at 
these  preaching  services  in  Trinity  Church, 
New  York,  will  not  soon  forget  the  scene 
there  witnessed,  with  crowds  of  business 
men  flocking  into  the  sacred  building  from 
the  busy  environs  of  Wall  Street,  the  simple 
and  primitive  service,  the  gracious  host 
seated  in  the  chancel,  and  the  eloquent  and 


i^i4ASmUmtmmiammimim>itm,''ii-itaimitmtitt,^>iumttiimmu 


MEMORABILIA. 


itiaiimmimim^'im  ■ 


impassioned  preacher  giving  his  message  to 
the  business  men  of  New  York  from  that 
historic  and  impressive  pulpit. 


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*— PW^B^HBWB 


MEMORABILIA. 


BOSTON  REMINISCENCES. 


The  building  of  Trinity  Church,  Boston, 
its  removal  to  the  Back  Bay  in  the  face  of 
much  opposition,  the  erection  of  the  church 
and  chapel  and  the  absolute  freedom  of  the 
entire  work  from  debt,  was  in  itself  an 
achievement  for  a  lifetime.  Yet,  to  those 
who  looked  on  during  these  days  of  strug- 
gle between  the  brilliant  Richardson  and 
the  average  "  practical  "  committee  man  (so- 
called),  nothing  was  seen  but  perennial 
serenity  of  spirit  in  the  life  of  this  busy 
creative  personality. 

Everything  was  right,  and  all  would  come 
right,  and  so  Richardson  the  architect,  and 
La  Farge  the  decorator,  and  Norcross  the 
builder,  each   were  happy  in  that  freedom 


wmmmmmmm 


MEMORABILIA. 


which  allowed  them  their  own  special  way 
with  the  new  church. 

To  a  clustering  group  of  elderly  clergy- 
men how  loyal  and  tender  this  man  was 
in  his  relationship!  Dr.  Stone,  the  venera- 
ble dean  of  the  new  Divinity  School  at  Cam- 
bridge, was  always  treated  with  the  love  of 
a  loyal  affectionate  son.  So  always  was  the 
mention  of  Dr.  Sparrow's  name  at  the  Alex- 
andria Seminary.  To  Dr.  Vinton  his  former 
pastor  at  St.  Paul's,  Boston,  and  subsequently 
his  admiring  and  retiring  tutelary  divinity  in 
Philadelphia,  Mr.  Brooks  was  always  the  fond 
and  devoted  clansman  ^and  follower. 

His  funeral  discourse  on  Dr.  Vinton 
wherein  he  was  eulogized  as  the  great  com- 
moner, the  great  presbyter  of  the  American 
Episcopal  church,  was  the  fit  and  touching 
tribute  of  a  loyal  life-long  friend. 

For  Bishop  Paddock,  Dr.  Brooks  had  as 
years  grew  on  and  he  came  to  recognize  the 


MEMORABILIA. 


soundness  and  wholesomeness  of  his  influ- 
ence in  Massachusetts,  nothing  but  words  of 
praise. 

And  for  clergymen  of  other  folds,  like  Dr. 
Peabody  and  Dr.  Gordon  and  the  different 
pastors  of  the  Boston  pulpit,  he  had  always; 
kind  and  brotherly  words  as  he  applied  to 
them  the  Master's  words,  "  By  their  fruits  ye 
shall  know  them." 

He  preached  everywhere,  and  was  the 
servant  of  all ;  now  at  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Union,  now  at  Appleton  Chapel, 
now  at  the  Moody  Tabernacle,  and  later  at 
Trinity  Church,  New  York.  But  the  Lent 
Lectures  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  Boston,  were 
in  a  certain  unique  way  his  greatest  occa- 
sions, and  the  mission  and  meaning  of  Lent 
never  seemed  so  clear  and  real  as  when 
standing  up  with  that  vast  concourse  of  bus- 
iness men  one  realized  the  far  off  words 
of  the  prophet,  "  How   beautiful    upon   the 


MEMORABILIA. 

: 

mountains  are  the  feet  of  them  that  preach 
the  gospel  of  peace." 

It  was  very  seldom  that  Phillips  Brooks 
talked  about  himself  or  his  own  personal  ex- 
periences. He  would  tell  to  a  few  friends 
of  Browning,  or  Gladstone,  or  Tennyson,  or  of 
his  visit  to  the  Queen,  Windsor  Castle,  but 
always  in  such  a  way  that  the  personal  equa- 
tion in  the  tale  was  reduced  to  the  lowest 
possible  terms. 

His  love  of  clear  and  simple  humor  was 
marked  and  emphatic,  and  he  had  a  rippling 
way  of  describing  ludicrous  scenes  which 
was  like  nothing  so  much  as  a  bubbling 
gurgling  brook  laughing  its  way  over  rock 
and  stone  and  moss. 

There  was  a  member  of  the  Clericus  Club 
who  used  to  tell  for  him  at  stated  intervals 
after  the  most  importunate  and  irrepressible 
command,  a  long  drawn  yarn  about  an 
English  showman,  in  which  absurd  descrip- 

74 

MEMORABILIA. 


tion  of  men  and  scenes  and  animals  and 
historic  events  always  aroused  his  keenest 
laughter.  When  this  story  was  repeated  to 
him,  he  nearly  always  became  aroused,  left 
his  chair,  stirred  the  fire,  put  on  more  fuel, 
walked  the  floor,  puffed  at  his  cigar  most 
vigorously,  and  ended  by  joining  in  the 
story,  repeating  stray  snatches  with  a  falling 
and  rising  cadence  after  the  manner  of  the 
recital  of  a  Greek  chorus. 

No  one  of  the  old  set  has  heard  that  story 
since  the  day  when  he  went  away  from  his 
friends,  and  it  would  seem  sacrilege  to  hear 
it  ever  again. 

There  was  a  sermon  which  he  preached  a 
number  of  times  the  year  before  he  died,  on 
the  text  "  If  I  may  apprehend  that  for  which 
also  I  am  apprehended  of  Jesus  Christ,"  in 
which  he  analyzed  most  subtly  and  skillfully 
the  power  and  meaning  of  a  life-long  friend- 
ship.    It  was    nothing   less    than   the   con- 


MEMORABILIA. 

fession  on  his  part  of  the  great  and  abiding 

value  which  he  placed  on   certain  very  inti- 

mate and  tender  associations  with  those  who 

stood  near  to  him  and  were  dear  to  him. 

Lover,  husband,  father,  were  relationships 

which  were    denied    him.     So   he  gathered 

the  trailing  vines  of  his  heart's    affections 

and  wound   them    round   his   brothers  who 

were  his  truest  friends,  and  round  his  truest 

friends  who  were  his  brothers. 

It  was  with  him  as  Tennyson  describes  it 

in  "  In  Memoriam  : " 

"  Thy  voice  is  on  the  rolling  air ; 

I  hear  Thee  where  the  waters  run ; 

Thou  standest  in  the  rising  sun, 

And  in  the  setting  Thou  art  fair. 

"  Far  off  Thou  art,  but  ever  nigh  ; 

I  have  Thee  still,  and  I  rejoice  ; 

I  prosper,  circled  with  Thy  voice ; 

I  shall  not  lose  Thee  though  I  die." 

76 

MEMORABILIA. 

As   one   reads   over   again    the    familiar 

pages    of    his    Browning   how    underscored 

and  emphatic  certain  passages    become  as 

illumined  by  the  clear  and  spiritual  life   of 

Phillips  Brooks ! 

During  the  first  days  of  his  absence  from 

earth,  as  the  minds  of  his  friends  tried  to 

become   accustomed   to    the    hard    strange 

thought  of  the  grave,  and   the   funeral   and 

Mount  Auburn,  how   the    opening  lines  of 

La  Saisiaz,  again  and  again  asserted  them- 

selves : 

"  Good,  to  forgive  ; 

Best,  to  forget ! 

Living,  we  fret ; 

Dying  we  live. 

Fretless  and  free, 

Soul,  clap  thy  pinion ! 

Earth  have  dominion, 

Body,  o'er  thee  ! 

77 

MEMORABILIA. 

"  Wander  at  will, 

Day  after  day,  — 

Wander  away, 

Wandering  still — 

Soul  that  canst  soar  1 

Body  may  slumber  : 

Body  shall  cumber 

Soul-flight  no  more. 

. 

"  Waft  of  Soul's  wing  ! 

; 

What  lies  above  ? 

Sunshine  and  Love, 

Skyblue  and  Spring, 

Body  hides  —  where? 

Ferns  of  all  feather, 

Mosses  and  heather, 

; 

Yours  be  the  care  ! " 

And  the  following  passages  from  Brown- 

ing's early  poem  of  "  Pauline,"  seem  to  have 

become    illuminated    and    made    intensely 

78 

MEMORABILIA. 

real   by  this   nature  which    made  men  see 

what  was  meant  by  the   "  light  of  life  : " 

"  So,  as  I  grew,  I  rudely  shaped  my  life 

: 

To  my  immediate  wants  ;  yet  strong  beneath 

Was  a  vague  sense  of  power  though  folded  up, 

A  sense  that  though  those  shades  and  times 

were  past, 

Their  spirit  dwelt  in  me,  with  them  should  rule. 

- 

"As  life  wanes,  all  its  care  and  strife  and  toil 

Seem  strangely  valueless — while  the  old  trees 

Which  grew  by  our  youth's  home,  the  waving 

; 

mass 

Of   climbing  plants    heavy    with    bloom  and 

dew, 

The   morning   swallows  with  their  songs  like 

words, 

All   these    seem   clear   and    only   worth   our 

thoughts : 

So  aught  connected  with  my  early  life, 

My  rude  songs  or  my  wild  imaginings, 

79 

MEMORABILIA. 

How  I  look  on  them  —  most  distinct  amid 

The  fever  and  the  stir  of  after  years  ! 

"And  one  star  left  his  peers  and  came  with 

peace 

Upon  a  storm,  and  all  eyes  pined  for  him ; 

And  one  isle  harbored  a  sea-beaten  ship, 

And   the   crew  wandered   in   its  bowers  and 

plucked 

Its   fruits   and   gave   up    all    their  hopes   of 

home  ; 

And  one  dream  came  to  a  pale  poet's  sleep, 

And  he  said,   '  I  am  singled  out  by  God, 

■ 

No  sin  must  touch  me.'     Words  are  wild  and 

■ 

weak. 

But  what  they  would  express  is,  —  Leave  me 

' 

not, 

Be  still  to  me 

A  help  to  music's  mystery  which  mind  fails 

To  fathom,  its  solution,  no  mere  clue  !  " 

So 

MEMORABILIA. 


As  one  remembers  his  preaching,  or  reads 
his  sermons,  or  comes  across  the  fragment 
of  some  of  his  letters,  how  strangely  in 
his  death  the  teachings  of  his  life  are 
made  emphatic,  according  to  the  Master's 
words,  "  And  now  I  have  told  you  before  it 
come  to  pass  that  when  it  is  come  to  pass 
ye  might  believe." 

He  was  so  veritably  in  the  spirit-world 
while  all  the  time  he  was  so  thoroughly  at 
home  with  his  friends  in  the  flesh  that  as 
one  said  recently,  "  I  think  of  him  as  now 
here,  and  now  there,  flitting  back  and  forth 
between  heaven  and  earth  so  continually, 
that  when  I  do  not  see  or  hear  him  here  any 
more,  I  simply  conclude  that  he  is  staying 
a  little  while  lonscer  on  the  other  side." 


MEMORABILIA. 

AS    BISHOP. 

When  he  was  very  tired  and  worn  after 
twenty  years  of  incessant  labor  at  Trinity 
Church,  Boston,  his  friends  perceived  after 
his  declination  of  the  Philadelphia  Bishop- 
ric and  the  Harvard  College  professorship, 
that  the  only  way  out  from  the  Trinity 
Church  routine  was  by  electing  him  as 
Bishop  Paddock's  successor. 

He  was  very  coy  and  shy  about  it  at  first, 
but  finally  came  to  see  that  it  was  the  one 
only  thing  for  him  to  do,  and  so  he  con- 
sented to  be  nominated. 

A  friend  who  had  watched  the  balloting 
on  the  day  of  the  Convention  and  had 
counted  ninety  long  ballots  (which  were 
the  Brooks  ballots)  dropped  into  the  box, 
grasped  his  hat  and  ran  over  to  the  Clar- 
endon Street  rectory  full  twenty-minutes 
83 

: 

MEMORABILIA. 

before  the    announcement  was    made,  and 
found  him  with  his    niece  in  the  spacious 
library.   "  Brooks,  you  are  Bishop ! "  was  the 
simple      announcement.     "  How      do     you 
know  t "     was  his  answer,  as  he  rose  to  pace 
up  and  down  the  apartment.    "  Because  you 
have  ninety  clerical  ballots  and    you    only 
want    seventy  and   the   laity  are   all   right. 
Come  get  ready,  the  Committee  will  be  here 
soon   to   tell   you  that   you   are    Bishop  of 
Massachusetts.       See,  here  comes  Mr.  Ches- 
ter the  sexton  running,  he  has  come  to  verify 
this  statement !  " 

He  paused  a  moment,  and  put  down  his 
cigar,  pleased  and  flushed,  and  yet  as  quiet 
as  a  child  with  its  promised  gift,  and  then 
said,    "  Bishop    of     Massachusetts  !      well ! 
you  have    chosen  a   queer    bishop."     And 
the  callers  came  and  the  disciple  that  did 
outrun  the  sexton  found  himself  constrained 
to  come  in  a  second  time,  along  with  the 
84 

MEMORABILIA. 

formal   committee,  and    solemnly   and    for- 
mally assist  at  the  official  announcement  of 
the  fact  that  had  already  so  informally  been 
made  known. 

But  even  then  it  was  too  late.     The  spirit 
was    burning    itself    straight   through   the 
flesh  and  no  power  of  man  could  turn   the 
flight    of   this  soul   backward.     Those  who 
knew  him  best  and  saw  him  most,  recognized 
a  burning  sense  of  impatience  to  be  through 
with  the  mission  of  life,  a   bewildering  ex- 
pression   of  helplessness  in     storming    any 
longer  his  hard  way  against  the  inevitable, 
and  a    strange    sense  of  the  closing  in   of 
the  environment  of  his  life  in  the  clutch  of 
destiny.     There  was  a  richness  and  rounded- 
ness    of    experience :    there   was   a   gentle, 
tender,  inexpressible  desire  to  be  the  servant 
of   all   men  :  there  was  a  strangely  subdued 
and  chastened  tone  which  made  one  think  of 
the  face  of  the    Ecce    Homo,  the  man   of 
85 

MEMORABILIA. 


sorrows  and  acquainted  with  grief,  in  these 
last  three  years  which  caused  his  friends  to 
reahze  as  never  before  the  jarring  tactless 
questioning  of  the  Sons  of  the  Prophet  at 
Bethel  and  at  Jericho  to  Elisha,  "  Knowest 
thou  that  the  Lord  will  take  away  thy  Mas- 
ter from  thy  head  today.  And  he  said,  Yea 
I  know  it :  hold  ye  your  peace  !  " 

Trinity  Church  within  three  short  years 
witnessed  three  great  sights  in  the  closing 
years  of  her  beloved  pastor's  life.  Those 
three  great  occasions  were  as  follows  : 

Phillips  Brooks'  last  day  as  the  rector  of 
the  church,  when  he  seemed  to  single  into 
his  farewell  discourses  all  the  teaching  and 
preaching  of  the  twenty  years  which  had 
gone  before  ;  the  day  of  his  consecration 
as  Bishop,  when  he  seemed  under  that  great 
dome  to  be  harnessed  and  fastened  into  the 
Chariot  service  of  the  Lord  God  Almighty, 
like  some  mailed  and  armored  angel ;    and 

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MEMORABILIA. 
I         -      ir    fliii 


the  day  of  his  funeral,  when  the  great  open 
Square  in  front  of  the  church  became  the 
outer  court  for  this  service  for  which  any 
Church  must  prove  itself  to  be  too  small ! 

In  these  latter  years  he  had  gathered  great 
wisdom  :  was  always  strong  in  his  positions  : 
acquired  a  sagacity  which  was  a  sort  of  run- 
ning guide  to  his  entire  life  and  that  of  his 
companions,  and  had  built  himself  over 
again  in  those  points  in  his  nature  where  the 
early  seams  of  his  limitations  had  been  visi- 
ble. His  criticism  faded  away  ;  an  early  inde- 
scribable Bostonian  air  melted  into  the  larger 
atmosphere  of  social  and  religious  cosmo- 
politanship ;  he  grew  to  respect  the  men  he 
once  most  bitterly  opposed,  and  the  perfect 
span  of  his  catholicity  was  reached  when 
Father  Hall  was  welcomed  into  the  Clericus 
Club,  and  when  he  took  the  ground  that 
Father  Grafton  should  not  be  disqualified 
from  being  Bishop  of  Fond-du-Lac,  since  if  he 

S7 


MEMORABILIA. 


was  sound  enough  to  be  a  presbyter  in  the 
Church,  he  was  sound  enough  to  be  a  bishop. 
"If  we  refuse  to  consent  to  Grafton's 
election  ",  he  wrote,  "  we  will  help  to  keep 
the  Episcopate  forever  narrower  than  it  now 
is." 


MEMORABILIA. 


ESTIMATE. 

Papers,  reviews,  and  published  pamphlets 
have  all  honored  his  name  in  the  articles 
which  have  been  written  about  him,  and  these 
with  unnumbered  sermons  from  pulpits 
throughout  the  English  speaking  world,  have 
told  the  story  of  his  life  and  have  drawn  the 
lessons  which  his  character  teaches. 

The  following  extract  from  an  editorial 
in  the  Philadelphia  Press,  condenses  into  a 
few  striking  sentences,  that  which  others 
have  taken  many  pages  to  elaborate  : 

"  In  the  work,  which  Dr.  Brooks  dis- 
charged for  a  third  of  a  century,  he  over- 
topped all  his  contemporaries  who  labored  in 
this  great  harvest  by  his  direct  capacity  to 
express  spiritual  conviction.  In  an  age 
when  there  is  a  constant  tendency  to  treat 
Christianity  as  a  body  of  doctrine  and  dogma, 


MEMORABILIA. 


or  as  a  code  of  ethics  and  conduct,  as  calling 
for  belief  in  a  creed  or  for  a  moral  life,  he 
grasped  the  greater  truth  that  these  are  but 
parts  and  phases,  manifestations  and  fruits, 
of  the  spiritual  life  revealed  to  the  race  at 
Bethlehem  and  on  Calvary.  It  is  the  object 
and  aim  of  the  entire  framework  and  struct- 
ure of  doctrinal  and  practical  Christianity 
to  impress  upon  men  the  reality  and  the 
sufficiency  of  this  life,  to  place  man  in  har- 
mony with  the  divine,  but  in  the  anxiety  of 
most  preachers  to  impress  and  explain  their 
explanation,  they  fail  to  carry  home  to  their 
hearers  the  simple  spiritual  message  of  the 
Gospel. 

"  This  can  only  be  accomplished  by  a  man 
in  whom  the  conviction  of  spiritual  things 
has  been  raised  to  that  white  heat  in  which 
all  truth, —  the  message  of  revelation  and 
nature,  of  science  and  religion,  of  creed  and 
conduct, —  can    be   welded    into    a   flawless 


MEMORABILIA. 

whole.      Much  which  is  usually  held  indis- 
pensable to  the  orator  on  platforms,  sacred 
or  secular,  was  absent  in  Dr.  Brooks,     His 
swift,  rapid  and  monotonous  utterance,  the 
want    of    relief  and  dramatic  portraiture,  a 
lack  of  systematic,  ordered  and  logical  argu- 
ment,—  this  and  much  else    prevented   his 
sermons  from  leaving  on    mind  or  memory 
that  impression    of   matchless    and  consum- 
mate art  which  has  marked  the  greater  pulpit 
orators  of  all  ages,  but    these    things  were 
the  merest  trifles  and  must  all  be  trifling  by 
the  side  of  the  tremendous  effect  produced 
by  the  overmastering  conviction  of  the  real- 
ities   of    life    and    of   its    spiritual    solution 
which    Dr.   Brooks    impressed    on    all    his 
hearers. 

"  Conviction  breeds  conviction.     Earnest- 
ness induces  earnestness.     The  effect  which 
Dr.  Brooks  created  and  continued  to  create 
with  every  fresh  appearance  was  rooted  and 

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grounded  in  that  grasp  of  things  spiritual 
on  which  all  human  power  of  expression 
and  interpretation  ultimately  rests  For  the 
wise  and  the  foolish  alike,  this  world  is  but 
an  empty  thing  unless  its  passing  show  is  lit 
with  a  spiritual  significance.  No  man  will 
lack  for  hearers  or  for  influence  over  his 
fellow-men  who  is  aflame  with  this  convic- 
tion and  whose  assertion  of  it  is  constant 
and  unhesitating.  On  this  truth  the  power 
of  all  higher  literature  rests,  and  by  it  men 
are  swayed  as  the  wheat  by  the  wind.  To 
one  to  whom  this  is  clear,  the  doubts  and 
difficulties  of  the  day  disappear  as  they  did 
for  those  who  came  under  the  power  and  in- 
fluence of  the  spiritual  conviction  and  belief 
of  the  great  preacher  just  gone. 

"  His  profound  conviction  of  those  spiritual 
certainties  which  underlie  life  and  play  their 
part  in  every  attempt  to  explain  its  pro- 
founder  significance  enabled  him,  at  a  time 


MEMORABILIA. 


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of  great  confusion  in  thought  and  great 
doubt  over  fundamental  spiritual  concep- 
tions, to  marshal  those  broad  and  far- 
reaching  harmonies  of  the  spiritual  world 
which  awake  and  respond  only  to  the  touch 
of  genius  of  the  highest  order.  He  de- 
livered an  old  message  —  no  man  more 
clearly  or  more  faithfully  —  but  he  presented 
it  in  terms  and  forms  which  met  modern 
needs  and  quelled  modern  doubts.  For  his 
church  and  his  denomination,  for  the  two 
cities  in  which  he  labored  and  in  which  his 
death  is  felt  as  a  public  loss,  he  did  much ; 
but  he  did  yet  more  in  quickening  the  re- 
ligious life  of  the  nation  to  a  fresh  confi- 
dence and  conviction  that  the  things  of  the 
spirit  are  still  mighty  to  prevail  over  all  else 
that  darkens  life  like  a  cloud  and  robs 
the  future  of  its  brightest  hope." 

In  his  imagination  and  his  spiritual  tran- 
scendence over  the  routine  methods  of  the 


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MEMORABILIA. 

intellect,  he  was  like  Emerson  :  in  his  sim- 
ple desire  to  get  at  directly  spiritual  returns 
for  life,  he  was  like  Wesley  :  in  the  prac- 
tical side  of  his  life,  he  was  like  the  English 
Cromwell  or  the  American  Cleveland.     He 
was  a  genius  without  the  infirmities  of  the 
temperament  of  genius,  and  his  daimon  or 
genius  worked  itself  out  on  the   field   of  re- 
ligious activity.      It  might  have  taken  the 
field  of  literature,  society,  business,  politics 
or  the  bar  or  medicine,  and  have  secured  as 
hearty  a  recognition  of  its  power  as  it  did 
in  the    ministry.     But    there  was    a   divine 
Providence  in  this  life,  and  the  call  from  God 
determined  the  field  wherein  this  anointed 
nature  was  to  exercise  its  powers,  according 
to  St.  Paul's  ascending  climax  or  progression 
of  character : 

"  For  whom  he  did  foreknow  he  also  did 
predestinate.     Moreover  whom  he  did  pre- 
destinate them  he  also  called  :  and  whom  he 

94 

MEMORABILIA. 


called  them  he  also  justified ;  and  whom  he 
justified  them  he  also  glorified." 


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MEMORABILIA. 


HISTORICAL   PARALLEL. 

Rev,  Dr.  Harwood,  of  New  Haven,  in  his 
most  interesting  sketch  of  Bishop  Brooks' 
character  and  career  compares  him  in  the 
hold  of  his  personality  over  the  populace 
and  the  shortness  of  his  Episcopate  to  Arch- 
Bishop  John  Tillotson,  in  the  reign  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary, 

The  comparison  is  most  striking  and  sug- 
gestive, and  satisfies  that  innate  feeling  of 
the  heart  to  localize  in  all  history  the 
place  of  our  living  favorites. 

In  view  of  the  bitter  opposition,  the  cruel 
"trial  by  scourging",  through  which  the 
late  Bishop  Elect  of  Massachusetts  passed, 
during  the  six  months  which  preceded  his 
consecration,  all  of  which  he  passed  in  abso- 
lute silence,  how  striking  in  its  similarity  of 


MEMORABILIA. 

experience  is  the  following  extract  from 
Macaulay's  History  of  England  : 

"  Tillotson  was  nominated  to  the  Arch- 
bishopric, and  was  consecrated  on  Whitsun- 
day, in  the  church  of  St.  Mary -le- Bow. 
Compton,  cruelly  mortified,  refused  to  bear 
any  part  in  the  ceremony.  His  place  was  sup- 
plied by  Mew,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  who  was 
assisted  by  Burnet,  Stillingfleet  and  Hough. 
The  congregation  was  the  most  splendid 
that  had  been  seen  in  any  place  of  worship 
since  the  coronation.  The  Queen's  drawing- 
room  was,  on  that  day,  deserted.  Most  of 
the  peers  who  were  in  town  met  in  the 
morning  at  Bedford  House,  and  went  thence 
in  procession  to  Cheapside.  Norfolk,  Caer- 
marthen  and  Dorset  were  conspicuous  in 
the  throng. 

"  Devonshire,  who  was  impatient  to  see  his 
woods  at  Chatsworth  in  their  summer  beauty, 
had  deferred  his  departure  in  order  to  mark 
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MEMORABILIA. 


his  respect  for  Tillotson.  The  crowd  which 
lined  the  streets  greeted  the  new  Primate 
warmly.  For  he  had,  during  many  years, 
preached  in  the  city  ;  and  his  eloquence,  his 
probity,  and  the  singular  gentleness  of  his 
temper  and  manners,  had  made  him  the 
favorite  of  the  Londoners.  But  the  con- 
gratulations and  applauses  of  his  friends 
could  not  drown  the  roar  of  execration 
which  the  Jacobites  set  up. 

"  According  to  them,  he  was  a  thief  who 
had  not  entered  by  the  door,  but  had  climbed 
over  the  fences.  He  was  a  hireling  whose 
own  the  sheep  were  not,  who  had  usurped 
the  crook  of  the  good  shepherd  and  who 
might  well  be  expected  to  leave  the  flock  at 
the  mercy  of  every  wolf.  He  was  an  Arian, 
a  Socinian,  a  Deist,  an  Atheist.  He  had 
cozened  the  world  by  fine  phrases,  and  by  a 
show  of  moral  goodness ;  but  he  was  in 
truth  a  far  more  dangerous  enemy  of   the 


MEMORABILIA. 


church  than  he  could  have  been  if  he  had 
bpenly  proclaimed  himself  a  disciple  of 
Hobbes,  and  had  lived  as  loosely  as  Wilmot. 

"He  had  taught  the  fine  gentlemen  and 
ladies  who  admired  his  style,  and  who  were 
constantly  seen  round  his  pulpit,  that  they 
might  be  very  good  Christians  and  yet  might 
believe  the  account  of  the  Fall  in  the  book 
of  Genesis  as  allegorical.  Indeed  they  might 
easily  be  as  good  Christians  as  he ;  for  he 
had  never  been  christened ;  his  parents 
Were  Anabaptists  and  he  had  lost  their  re- 
ligion when  he  was  a  boy ;  and  he  had  never 
found  another. 

"  In  ribald  lampoons  he  was  nicknamed 
Undipped  John.  The  parish  register  of  his 
baptism  was  produced  in  vain.  His  ene- 
mies still  continued  to  complain  that  they 
had  lived  to  see  fathers  of  the  Church  who 
never  were  her  children.  They  made  up  a 
story  that  the  Queen  had  felt  bitter  remorse 


MEMORABILIA. 

for  the  great  crime   by  which  she  had  ob- 
tained a  throne,  that  in  her  agony  she  had 
applied  to  Tillotson,  and  that  he  had  comr 
forted  her  by  assuring  her  that  the  punish- 
ment of  the  wicked  in  a  future  state  would 
not  be  eternal. 

"  The  Archbishop's  mind  was  naturally  of 
almost    feminine    delicacy,    and    had    been 
rather  softened  than  braced  by  the  habits  of 
a  long  life,  during  which   contending  sects 
and   factions    had    agreed     in    speaking    oi 
his   abilities    with   admiration    and    of    his 
character    with    esteem.      The     storm     of 
obloquy  which  he  had  to  face  for  the  first 
time  at  more  than  sixty  years  of  age  was 
too  much  for  him.     His  spirits    declined ; 
his  health  gave  way ;  yet  he  neither  flinched 
from    his    duty   nor   attempted    to    revenge' 
himself    on  his    persecutors.     A   few   days 
after  his  consecration,   some   persons  were 

lOI 

' 

MEMORABILIA. 


seized  while  dispersing    libels  in  which  he 
was  reviled. 

"  The  law  officers  of  the  Crown  proposed 
to  institute  prosecutions  ;  but  he  insisted 
that  nobody  should  be  punished  on  his  ac- 
count. Once,  when  he  had  company  with  him 
a  sealed  packet  was  put  into  his  hands :  he 
opened  it :  and  out  fell  a  mask.  His  friends 
were  shocked  and  incensed  by  this  cowardly 
insult ;  but  the  Archbishop,  trying  to  con- 
ceal his  anguish  by  a  smile,  pointed  to  the 
pamphlets  which  covered  his  table,  and  said 
that  the  reproach  which  the  emblem  of  mask 
was  intended  to  convey  might  be  called  gen- 
tle when  compared  with  other  reproaches 
which  he  daily  had  to  endure.  After  his 
death  a  bundle  of  the  savage  lampoons  which 
the  nonjurors  had  circulated  against  him  was 
found  among  his  papers  with  this  endorse- 
ment :  '  I  pray  God  forgive  them  :  I  do.'  "  * 


*Macaulay,  History  of  England.    Vol.  iv.  29. 


MEMORABILIA. 

L '  ENVOI. 

Such  are  a  few  stray  remembrances  of  this 

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life  which  has  been  lived  among  us,  this  man 

sent  from  God  who  came  to  be  a  witness  to 

the  light  that  all  men  might  believe. 

The  rest  of  life  will  be  lonesome  enough 

without    him,  but    happy  are    they  indeed 

who  have  seen  and   known  and  have  been 

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